Pacemaker Interrogation

Recently insurance companies have been denying pacemaker interrogation as excessive procedures if done more than once or twice a year depending upon the number of leads they have. The standard is to interrogate these every 3 months. Does anyone have any suggestions since appeals have not worked.

Have you looked here?

Medtronic has some good info on their site on reimbursement. Go to the right side "Followup Guidelines" from this page http://www.medtronic.com/crdmreimbursement/